La Méduse

Évangeline and Oscar
Age 7
Ladysmith, Canada

Évangeline and Oscar worked together to invent this jellyfish, which removes oil that has escaped into the ocean, safely storing it inside its body until it gets back to land. Oscar chose a jellyfish, and they developed the idea together, with Évangeline creating the drawing. Great team work!

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La Meduse

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The Inventor
Évangeline and Oscar
Ladysmith, Canada
The Maker
Gabriela Antonini Escovedo
Animator, Character Designer and Illustrator
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Invention Story

The Idea!

La Méduse (the Jellyfish) removes oil from the ocean. The tubes open and close to suck the oil into the sponges. There is a machine inside that wrings the oil out of the sponges.

We love it! Oscar has also been using his Inventor's Log to tell us more about this wonderful invention.

Évangeline has been using her Inventor's Log to tell us more about this invention and what they have learned about the oceans.

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First step

I chose to bring to life Évangeline and Oscar’s idea. Their idea is called “La méduse”. The word refers to a big jellyfish ...

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Concept art

To bring to life Évangeline and Oscar’s idea, I initiated a brainstorming process to find out how their invention works ...

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Rough storyboard

After completing the concept art, I figured out the color palette of the character design. Later, I started doing the ...

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Oscar and Évangeline chatted to animator Gabriela to give feedback and more detail on their idea and to see Gabriela's initial ideas for the animation.

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Zoom call with Évangeline and Oscar

I e-meet Évangeline and Oscar to get better idea of how the mechanisms of their amazing invention works ...

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Animation proces

The process in how the animation was produced starts with me drawing assets digitally. Assets are the visuals elements ...

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We can't wait to see what these two ingenious inventors come up with next. They already have great teamwork skills!

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